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Join the Wagner Society as we wrap-up the year with this popular celebratory event.

The event kicks off with a "bubbly" greeting and then our entertainment for the event.

Noted Wagnerian soprano Maire Plette will perform her hilarious rendition of the Anna Russell's famous "The Ring of the Nibelungen". Marie is well-known to local audiences for her performances at the Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Livermore Valley Opera and West Edge Opera. Ms. Plette will be accompanied by Alexander Katsman, Artistic Director and Music Director of the Livermore Valley Opera.

The Wagner Society is pleased to welcome Professor Heath Lees. University professor, broadcaster, writer, and musicologist, Heath Lees is much sought-after for his lecturing skills, especially on anything to do with Wagner.

Twenty years ago Professor Lees and his wife founded the Wagner Society of New Zealand and from there, Heath has now built an international reputation as a dynamic communicator on the subject of music in general and Wagner in particular. In the last...

The Wagner Society welcomes Steinway Artist and piano virtuoso Stephan Möller. Stephan Möller is also professor of piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, President of the Vienna International Piano Institute and also serves on the juries of many piano competitions world-wide which is what brings him to California (see additional information on Stephan Möller below). The program will be devoted to Richard Wagner with several of Wagner's rare piano works as well as piano transcriptions of...

This year we have a very special program featuring Wagner orchestral excerpts, arranged for piano four-hands. Our special guests are Dr. Alan Rea and WSNC member Sylvia Park O'Neill. Here is the program for the musical portion of the celebration

We are delighted that renown pianist William Wellborn will be our musical guest and he has prepared an exciting mini-concert of piano works. Mr. Wellborn just returned from concerts in France and during this past summer in Weimar, Germany Wellborn played an all Liszt program on Liszt's piano.

The concert includes works by Scarlatti, Wagner-Liszt, Debussy and Verdi-Liszt.

This is a great opportunity to have an enjoyable afternoon socializing with your fellow Wagnerians who gather together to share stories...

Enhance your Ring experience and learn more about Wagner’s masterpiece. Each symposium will explore different facets of Wagner’s Ring with unique talks given by noted scholars, many of whom have lectured at the Bayreuth Festspiele. Among the topics will be the myths, legends, music, drama and literary aspects of this extraordinary work.

Join the WSNC for a fantastic banquet immediately following the Cycle 2 performance of Götterdämmerung. This is a festive way to end this spectacular week of Wagner and share the camaraderie of like-minded Wagnerians at this grand finale to the Ring. This event is open to anyone, even if you did not go to the Ring. And we welcome Wagner Society of Northern California Members and non-members.

Enhance your Ring experience and learn more about Wagner’s masterpiece. Each symposium will explore different facets of Wagner’s Ring with unique talks given by noted scholars, many of whom have lectured at the Bayreuth Festspiele. Among the topics will be the myths, legends, music, drama and literary aspects of this extraordinary work.

MEGAN CULLEN, soprano, holds degrees from Boston University and The Juilliard School and is currently studying for her Master’s at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Cesar Ulloa. Megan sang the roles of Liù (Giocomo Puccini’s Turandot) and La Chauve-Souris (Maurice Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges), and was a National Semi-Finalist in the Orpheus Competition. She won an...